Reserved error -1517

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Eric Blitzer

Windows 2000
Office 2000
Does anyone know what causes this error. Some of my users
are experiencing this error. It prevents anymore action on
the form and crashes the application. Once it starts
happening it continues every time the application is used.
I have to restore the application file from a copy.

Thanks

Eric
 
A reserved error means that something happened that the programmers of
Access did not handle. Once the error occurs, there is not much you can do
about it, so avoiding the error needs to be our goal here.

Firstly, check that all users have the latest service packs for both Office
2000 and for JET 8. You can download the service packs from:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/sp
The fact that some users experience the problem and not others could be just
the way they work, but it is certainly worth checking that the crashers have
the same version of msaccess.exe (typically in program files\microsoft
office\office) and msjet40.dll (typically in winnt\system32), by
right-clicking the file and checking the Version tab. Also check that there
are no duplicated dlls in these paths.

The fact that you have to restore the front end file indicates it is being
corrupted. We don't know whether the corruption results from the
error/crash, or the corruption causes the error/crash. It may be worth
checking through the list of things that contribute to corruption in this
article:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-25.html

HTH
 
This error will occur if you change the design of a table, but don't follow
through with a compact. If your database is split, it is a good idea to
compact the backend after a design change, and also refresh the links in the
frontend and compact it.
 
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